Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (Reaction)

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Finally inducted into the Rock and Rool Hall of Fame. The purest voice I've ever heard.

[@hongfang2508]

Joan Baez helped make Bob Dylan famous when she asked him to join her on stage. Joan was the bigger act at the time (very early sixties). They became lovers. Joan thought the relationship was deeper than Bob apparently did.

[@trorisk]

he even cheated on her with her sister...

[@KarinStrong-k4j]

Anyone who has ever experienced a narcissistic relationship will recognize the indicators in this story.

[@stevewebster973]

Joan Baez sang at the civil rights rally in DC where Martin Luther King made his I have a dream speech. She was already famous then. Bob Dylan wasn’t so much, and thanks to her he performed on that stage too. Later on they parted company artistically as much as anything. They never really got over each other. Incidentally it wasn’t the scripted speech Reverend King intended to give. He started out on that, and the crowd was getting restless and bored. Mahalia Jackson had also sung, and from her seat behind the podium she whispered to Martin ~ tell them about the dream, tell them about the dream ... so he did. Anyway this song is a beautiful bittersweet elegy, the best she ever wrote.

[@JM-rl1hf]

“We both could’ve died then and there” what a great line. The way she looks at Dylan in these pics pretty much explains why she wrote the song.

[@kdmiranda]

So true. Gorgeous song, but that line is perfect!

[@John_Chu]

The song is about her relationship with Bob Dylan in the early days of both their careers in the '60s. They broke up and then sort of got back together ten years later...and then broke up again.

[@John_Chu]

Dylan was a player. He once asked Pops Staple for Mavis Staple's hand in marriage. But Pops said she was too young to marry.

[@hongfang2508]

This beautiful song started a musical back and forth between Joan and Bob Dylan. Dylan responded with a song called 'Oh Sister'. Joan then responded with a harsh song reply called 'Oh Brother' where she takes offense to being described as a sister to Bob. She thought their relationship had been much more than that.

[@hongfang2508]

For more details, google the title of this article: Oh Sister: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, exchanging thoughts through song.

[@tracyvolschenk7059]

"You strayed into my arms," love that. Her voice is beautiful.

[@tomtrahan8485]

She was famous before Bob Dylan. They hooked up. He left her. She loved him. hence the song

[@chrisf.7980]

Teez, she wrote this song about her affair with the legendary Bob Dylan, who was the young man in all the images with her in the video. They were together for a very brief time in the early to mid 60's, I believe. I was just a kid during that time, so I may be off just a bit, but I do remember seeing her performing this song on TV in the 70's. This song is achingly beautiful.

[@jnagarya519]

She helped him become famous, then he dropped her.

[@chrisf.7980]

To be fair, she was married at the time too. One could argue that Dylan would have become famous anyway. I have never been keen on making someone the villain when it comes to speculating about others relationships. Besides, this is often what it takes for an artist to make something beautiful like this. 😁

[@rattlesnakeconservation]

Not necessarily for a reaction vid, but there's a sort of sequel to this song that's equally beautiful that you might want to listen to for your own benefit. Diamonds and Rust was written, obviously, from bitterness. The other, written later, is just as intimate but written after some introspection, when the bitterness has mellowed into a sort of bittersweet nostalgia. It's a beautiful retrospective not only on Dylan himself but on the times as she talks about "those eloquent songs from the good old days, that set us to marching with banners ablaze." It's called Grapes of the Summer.

[@vruth23]

Great reaction. Her voice is penetrating, haunting, intense. Joan and Bob were in the folk music scene at the same time in the early days 1960 61 62 and on... She basically introduced him to the "scene" She was already a Star. A big Star. She had already been on the cover of Time magazine. She was and still is, a Peace Activist. She married David Harris who was jailed for 3 years for resisting the draft in 1968. She is the Queen of american folk music, and she was called "Madonna" long before Madonna was born.

[@debbrarobinson3578]

Love your reaction! When I was young and Vietnam was killing boys from my neighborhood I would cry myself to sleep listening to her. At seventeen I married a boy I hardly knew who had just returned from there. We didn’t make it, I was too young and the war had fucked his head terribly. We survived tho.

[@CA5124]

WOW ! 🔥 ❤ Haunting vocals from Joan Baez!

[@ptournas]

Great song. I always loved not only her voice, but also her superb guitar work. She didn't write an awful lot of songs ( or maybe she did but just didn't record them), but I thought the ones she did write were really great, as well as all the covers and traditional songs she did.

[@eh-i1841]

This is the perfect,lost love,song.

Hello man happy to see you with Baez again! I have been a real big fan of this woman for decades and I will never end. She made me understand many things all over the world and in a way made me make decisions about which struggle to choose and which path to walk on to remain the honnest man I think I am. She made only one hit which is "Diamonds and Rust". As she said once, she wasn't expected to make hits as she was playing folk songs or protest songs. But she did with this one which is a real gem. Yes it is about her relationship with Bob Dylan but I guess it is much deeper than this. It comes from her deep soul. But you should listen to "Oh Brother" she wrote as an answer to Bob Dylan's song "Oh Sister" he wrote about her. You'll feel Joan Baez's anger in this song as Dylan hasn't behaved nicely to her as he confessed decades later. More often when she sings this song live since the 90's, at the end she says "if you're offering me Diamonds and Rust, well I'll take the Diamond!" which certainly means that she went over this relationship and now it is ok! She caught 80 yo now. “It has been my life’s joy to make art. It’s also been my life’s joy to make, as the late Congressman John Lewis called it, ‘good trouble.’ What luck to have been born with the ability to do both; each one giving strength and credibility to the other. I am indebted to many for a privileged life here. I’ve tried to share my good fortune with others anywhere and everywhere in the world. Sometimes there have been risks, but they are only a part of the meaning of it all. I extend my deepest thanks to the Kennedy Center for recognizing me, my art, and the good trouble I’ve made.” - Joan Baez This is what she said after being honored by Kenedy Center Honoree... Thank you for posting this beautiful and soulful song! Take care!

[@taracochran-patrick784]

Wow thanks for that I had no idea

[@robtintelnot9107]

Such a good song. The chord structure is perfect to match her singing.

[@eh-i1841]

They are still great friends.

[@jons.105]

Paradox is a good word re: the title. Such a beautiful voice and lyrics!!

[@jeanettesmith765]

Love her song about Bob.

[@mythicsin3083]

Got to see Joan in the late 70’s at an acoustic show. The venue was known for acoustics, and its was quite sweet.

[@carojayess1723]

I’ve been hoping you’d do this one. I knew you’d love it! It’s just hauntingly beautiful. ❤️❤️

[@TeezMcGee]

Gorgeous tune ❤️

[@elysehfm8797]

Yep! You got the right pronunciation of Baez. Great reaction.

[@jamesreagle245]

Haunting

[@warrenhughes911]

Great REACTION..

[@ConstantGardener-q9q]

Great reaction. Thanks

[@JopiniStJopy]

Dude, good stretch. You got the words to describe this. Yeah, this hits you right where you live.

[@ingopinkowski1091]

Joan Baez is timeless and far before you where born. You my be remember better Judas Priest, Dimond and rust. That is her song. A lot of people don't realize this.🥰🥰

[@christinemccann6088]

The were a couple for a couple of years in the 60s. They were both very famous at the same time.

[@warrenhughes911]

Her love song for Bob Dylan..

[@iainprendergast8311]

Love it.

[@corneliusantonius3108]

Joan Baoz was at the million men march

[@onecompass7290]

her voice is 'pure'. one of the best songs ever written about love and loss

[@barbararobbins5309]

This is about Joan relationship with Bob Dylan . She says he broke her heart.

[@AtomicVampire1]

What’ a wonderful song, Judas Priest did a great cover of this song.

[@drummonkey9291]

Been out, am a bit mashed up. But do love your channel dude. You really love your tunes man. Can see big things for your channe!l Ps play my tune by Joe Arnom Jones' you mollusc 😂

[@warrenhughes911]

Bob Dylan

[@cayleyturner3556]

💗

[@davidfowler2720]

Please do Judas Priest's cover of this. It's amazing.

[@tomtrahan8485]

I forgot to say, he got much more famous then her. sorry

[@TommiBrem]

Unpopular opinion: I find her voice to be annoying. I like a nice vibrato, but not on basically every vowel.

[@HidingFromFate]

Maybe I'm wrong but I think there's two different versions of the song. Either the musical mix or instrumentation is slightly different between the two. Plus, her vocals do seem more vibratory to me on this version. Which I can understand someone thinking that it might be a little much. For both of these reasons, I prefer the other version.

[@dickvanlunteren8953]

Fantastische tekst, ontroerend! een herinnering, koestering, een nooit meer vergeten, prachtige tijd mooi mooi mooi mooi..................

[@sallyh5413]

Thanks for pronouncing her name right! 😄 When the song came out she had to say it was about her husband, since she and Bob were both married at the time of their affair. The truth came out later, I mean it was blatantly obvious who the song was really about anyway. I get teary-eyed every time I hear it, unrequited love is so tragic. 💔

[@hongfang2508]

The movie Don't Look Back came out in 1967. It documents a brief period of Bob Dylan's life centered around a concert tour of England, the tour occuring in 1965. To some, including me, this film documents the greatest period of Dylan's career when he recorded and released iconic music ranging from Blowin in the Wind to A Hard Rain is Going to Fall. The film documents a tour of Dylan alone on stage in his folk music beginning with acoustic guitar and harmonica (no other instruments or musicians) before he went 'electric' and more toward 'rock and roll'. Film is shot in black and white. Joan Baez appears in the film early with Bob together in their hotel room. It captures the emotional distance that led to their breakup. I remember a scene where Joan appears to want alone time with Bob while he ignores her, focusing instead on writing a song on a piano. As the film progresses along the concert tour, Baez makes no more appearances on film anyway.

[@amandacampos9774]

I've been waiting for this one!!! Thanks, Teez ❤️❤️❤️

[@marinaparigiani4090]

"Dedicated" to Bob Dylan. She is a great activist against wars.

[@kevinogracia1615]

Dig. She actually did a rap song called "Time Rag." It's about Time magazine dissing her for not being relevant anymore. The funk groove is cool. It's on KZbin and the album "Blowin' Away." Peace on earth.

[@productivepenguin8865]

Great reaction. This is one of those songs that really kind of leaves a mark. Another of her's that I really like and haven't seen done yet is "Blessed Are".

[@ellenlewis9860]

It was about their relationship. Sad but lovely.